| 良 |
liáng qín zé mù | a fine bird chooses a tree to nest in (proverb) / fig. a talented person chooses a patron of integrity |
| 良 |
liáng | good / very / very much |
| 禽 |
qín | (bound form) birds; fowl / (literary) birds and animals / old variant of 擒 |
| 择 |
zé | to select / to choose / to pick over / to pick out / to differentiate / to eliminate / also pr. [zhai2] |
| 木 |
Mù | surname Mu |
| 木 |
mù | (bound form) tree / (bound form) wood / unresponsive; numb; wooden |